I will refer to Shinigami as Shin whenever he talks to some one because I hate spelling out Shinigami every time.
Duo's Pain
Chapter 2
"Like he has been telling everyone for a long time now, he is the God of Death, and he and I are one. Just call me Shinigami." he said with a cruel smile.
Sakura stared at the braided boy in front of her and shivered. Duo's eyes were no longer amethyst but deep, bottomless black orbs. She watched, stunned, as a glowing green scythe appeared in his hand, and with a deceptively simple move of his body, beheaded the guards that were still standing next to him.
Gasping, she stumbled a step back as he turned his hollow eyes towards her again.
"Duo Maxwell is under my protection. Go back to your bosses at New Oz and tell them to leave him alone." Shinigami said coolly and she nodded quickly before running out of the salvage yard. If she had waited another few seconds or turned around and looked at the youth, she would have seen his eyes return to their nature color and then see him collapse. Just before he hit the ground, however he disappeared in a flash of green smoke.
But she did not look back, and instead kept running until she got to the airport where a shuttle was waiting to take her back to HQ.
Quatre sighed as he put down a file that he had been reading. No matter what he did, he just couldn't keep up with Duo. It seemed that he knew exactly where they all were and what they were all doing at every moment and managed to stay away from them. But why would he do that? Sure they had asked him to leave but Heero loved him and all four of them had visited him everyday except for the one day that he had woken up.
"Quatre, turn on the news. There is something that you have got to see." Trowa said as he hurried in to his office and flipped on the TV that was in the corner.
"...bodies were found at Duo Maxwell's salvage yard on L2 decapitated. Mr. Maxwell protests the allegations by saying that he was asleep when the murders took place."
Quatre stared at the TV in shock as it showed the ex-Deathscyth pilot being lead away in handcuffs.
"I don't believe it. Duo killed some one and then came up with the lamest excuse?" Quatre said in shock.
"But Duo doesn't lie." Trowa said softly.
"I know but this is still unbelievable."
Suddenly the phone rang, startling the to guys.
"Yes?" Quatre said as he picked up the phone and turned to the vid screen.
"Have you seen the news?" Wufie demanded from the screen.
"We're watching it now." Quatre said and Trowa came around the desk so that Wufie could see him too.
"I'm going to head over to L2 to see him and ask him my self about what happened. This is not like him." Wufie said angrily and Quatre nodded.
"We'll meet you there." Quatre said and Wufie nodded.
Suddenly Trowa spoke up for the fist time since Wufie and Quatre had started talking. "Has Heero seen this yet?" he asked softly and Wufie just nodded.
Heero had indeed seen the broadcast. He was currently in his office at the Preventers HQ trashing the place. All ready the TV and entertainment system had been demolished and there were a couple holes in the walls at various place around the room where he had put his fist through the wall.
After about ten more minutes, he finally collapsed on the window seat and watched the rain falling.
'How could he do this?' he thought to himself as he leaned his head against the windowpane. Behind him, the door opened quietly.
"Yuy, we're going to go see Duo." Wufie said and Heero slowly turned around.
"How could he lie like that?" he asked as Wufie approached.
"We don't know, which is why were going up there to see if we can get some answers." Wufie said and Heero stood up.
"When do we leave?"
Duo sat on the cot in his jail cell and stared at the wall. The cell was an enclosed small space that had only a door, the cot, and a small light high above him on the ceiling.
'How the hell did this happen?' he thought for the hundredth time. All he could remember was the lady, Sakura hitting him in the back of his head with a pipe from the salvage yard and then waking up in his own bed.
'Shinigami, did you kill those guys?' he asked the other entity that resided in his body.
'Yes.' Shin said calmly in his mind.
'Why?'
'New Oz was trying to kidnap you. I had to convince her to leave you alone.'
'Couldn't you just reveal your true self like you did with those guys a couple years ago? We really do look a lot a like, you know.' Duo said silently to the God of Death who chuckled.
'Yes, we do but if they had seen the bat wings sprouting out of your back, they might have went to their bosses and told them and then they would have hunted you down until the day you died. Those other guys were just thugs but these guys have higher connections.' Shin explained and Duo nodded in understanding.
Realizing that the people monitoring the cell would find it strange that he was staring at the wall and nodding to himself, Duo quickly got off the bed and started exercising, as if he had nodded in his determination to do sit-ups.
Suddenly, the door opened and two guards came in to the room and grabbed him by each arm and dragged him out the door. The only reason he was let out of the cell with only two guards was that her was still wearing the cuffs that joined his wrists together and made it hard for him to do anything with his arms and hands.
They pulled him down the hall to a room where they sat him down in a chair, then left him alone. Looking around, Duo saw five different cameras trained on him and knew that they had microphones hidden all over so that they could hear anything that was said, even a whisper.
Suddenly the door opened again and he watched, shocked, as Quatre, Trowa, Wufie, and Heero entered and the door was slid shut behind them. Schooling his face into a cool mask of disinterest that he didn't feel, he stared at them as they sat down around him on various chairs.
They stared at each other for a few minutes before Duo finally spoke. "What do you want?" he asked in a neutral voice.
There was silence for a moment before Quatre asked softly, "Why did you kill them?"
"I may run and hide, but I never tell a lie." Duo snapped as he stood up and started to pace. "You know me better than that, Quatre. If I said I was sleeping, than I was sleeping. After all we went through together back then, you have the nerve to come here and ask why I killed two guys that I never touched?!" he shouted the last part as he spun around to face the group.
"Then why don't you tell us what happened." Trowa suggested softly and Wufie nodded solemnly.
"Fine. I'm working on my bike and this woman calling herself Sakura Tenda came up and said that she was sent by Lady Une to ask me to become a Preventer again. I started to walk away after refusing and she hit me over the head with a pipe. The next thing I know, I'm waking up in my bed with a major head-ache and the police banging on my door." Duo snapped as he twisted his head sharply to get his braid back over his shoulder to hang between his shoulder blades. Turning, he stomped over to the huge window that looked out at the stars.
Things were silent behind him for a moment, then Wufie asked in a hard voice, "Do you have any idea how you got into your bed or how those men died?"
"Oh, don't you know? Shinigami killed them with his scythe and then transported me there." Duo said as brightly as he could, knowing that that they would never believe him. Turning around, he glared at them for a moment before he stomped back over to his chair and slumped in to it.
After hearing Duo's last statement, Heero closed his eyes and sighed quietly. Looking up after a moment, he asked quietly, "Why did you leave when you got out of the hospital?"
Duo stared at him for a moment before saying, "I was simply follow what you guys told me to do. You did tell me to go away and leave you guys alone."
"But Duo, you were in a coma for two months. Why didn't you just stay in the hospital for a while and recover?" Quatre asked as he leaned on his lover.
"Why did you guys bother to even save me? You made it plenty clear that I wasn't to disrupt your lives any more." Duo said bitterly and the others gasped, not having realized that he had heard what they had said after he had run upstairs.
"I appreciate your little protest about kicking me out as being a little drastic, Quatre, but all you had to do was tell me that you had work to do." Duo said and Wufie immediately sat up straight with an angry look on his face.
"Maxwell we were always..." he started but Duo cut him off.
"You were always telling me to shut up, Wufie, but never once did you ever give me a reason to. The four of you, after the war, became so silent and withdrawn that I was trying to get you guys to open up a little and in the process I fell in love, but then that didn't ever really matter did it? I was just a nuisance to you four." he snapped but they just sat there staring at him in silence.
Finally Quatre said softly, "We're sorry Duo, but all of us were in a bad mood that day and we have regretted it ever since." He would have continued but Duo spun away and walked over to the door and started banging on it with his shackles Soon the two guards that had brought him in, opened the door and came in.
"We're finished so you might as well take me back to my cell." he said and just before he left, he said, "I wish that none of this had ever happened. But you don't have to lie about what you think and feel. Don't come after me again."
Heero just stared at the closed door after he had left with the guards. Finally it opened again and an officious man came in.
"Thank you for trying to help but maybe it would have been better if you had stayed on the topic of the murders." he said snootily and Heero punched him before storming out with the others following behind him.
"You know, he was right. We never did give him a reason to shut up and was always trying to cheer us up after we all moved in together. But I can't believe that he thought we were lying when we said we were sorry for what we had done." Quatre said quietly as they got into the car and drove back to the hotel they were staying at. No one said anything for the rest of the night, each occupied by his own thoughts.
'You know, I think they really meant it when they said that they had been regretting it ever since.' Shin said thoughtfully as Duo was left alone in the cell.
'Who asked you?' Duo said silently as he lay down on the bed and tried to get comfortable.
'Just voicing my thoughts.'
'Well voice them some where else.' Duo snapped and quickly fell asleep.
One of the technicians was watching the recording of the meeting between the five guys in the viewing room when he suddenly started to feel sorry for the braided youth. "Sounds like this Duo kid went through a lot with these guys and they just turned their backs on him, or at least thinks they did." he said thoughtfully to his friend who was watching the tape also.
"Yeah but I wonder who it was that he fell in love with." the friend said and the technion nodded. Looking at the monitor that showed the prisoner's cell, he suddenly saw the cell door blow open and armed men ran in and grabbed the prisoner. They put a cloth over his face and his struggles became weaker until they finally stopped, but the technician didn't see this because he was already sounding the alarm. His friend did, however and it made him wonder what these big men wanted with a suspected murderer and made them break into a prison and kidnap him.
Duo woke up to the sound of the door to his cell being blown open. Before he could even sit up, two big men grabbed him and clamped a cloth with chloroform on it over his nose and mouth. Holding his breath so that he wouldn't breath it in, he faked passing out, almost doing so in the process for air loss, until they removed the cloth and tossed him over one of their shoulders.
He was carried out of his cell and soon found himself in the back of a van that sped off before the guards even got near them. Duo cracked his eyes a little to see who was in the van with him and saw the two men who had grabbed him and, surprisingly, Sakura Tenda who was watching him nervously.
"So tell me, where is this Shinigami that protects him?" the man driving the van sneered as he pulled into the shuttle port.
"I know that it sounds like I'm making it up but it was Shinigami that killed Tenchi and Toma. And you know that they were decapitated like a laser did it." Sakura snapped as she brushed a strand of lavender hair behind her ear.
'Do you have tell everyone you meet that you are Shinigami?' Duo silently snapped and Shin chuckled and took over Duo's body before he could stop him.
Shin chuckled out loud as he sat up and casually snapped the handcuffs like they were made out of tissue paper. The four people in the van stared at him in shock for a second as Shin leaned against the side of the van.
"I thought you had learned your lesson the last time." he said in amusement to Sakura who edged closer to the front of the van, trying to get away from the grinning God of Death.
"This is not by my choice." she whispered and flinched as he threw back his had and laughed.
Wiping the tears of laughter from his eyes, Shin smirked at her and said, "Well, I guess that I can't really expect to much of New Oz. Let me guess, they sent you out to try and gather all the Gundam pilots to keep them out of your way when you try to take over the colonies and earth, right?" She nodded faintly and he burst into laughter again.
So preoccupied by laughing, he didn't see the fist arching towards his face until it connected with his cheek, knocking him out and allowing Duo to gain control again. The others watched in surprised as the black orbs changed to the color of amethysts.
"Shin?" he said and thought to the entity but received no reply. Sighing he said, a little pissed, "I hate it when you take over like that, you ass."
"Wh.. what?" Sakura stuttered as she leaned forward a little to look into his eyes.
"Never mind. So you guys are from New Oz?" he asked and when they nodded, he smirked and pushed open the back of the van, which had come to a stop by a shuttle that was ready to launch, and tumbled out on to the ground.
The two men from the back of the van lunged out after him and a couple that were waiting nearby closed in around him. Duo found himself surrounded by five men, all armed, and knew that if something drastic didn't happen, he was in deep shit.
"I think you guys had better just walk away. I don't want to have to hurt you but I will." he said dangerously, but they just smirked at him.
Suddenly, one of them lunged and the fight between the God of Death and New Oz's men began. Duo managed to knock out two men but then the other three ganged up on him. Two grabbed his arms and held him while the third pounded on him. The man's gun had been lost earlier and the other two were having a hard time just holding him still.
'What happened?' Shin said in Duo's mind startling him.
'You were knocked out when one of them punched us in the face.' Duo said and began gasping for breath as the man in front of him punched him in the stomach, knocking the air out of him.
'Get us out of here, Shin!' he shouted silently as he dropped to his knees and black dots danced in front of his eyes.
'You got it.' In a flash of green smoke Duo disappeared, just missing a kick aimed for his head. The guards and Sakura stared at the spot where he had disappeared for a moment before Sakura said, "Ha! I told you so!"
Duo appeared in the middle of the floor of his bedroom at his apartment. In side his head, Shin said quietly, 'Duo there are some consequences I think you should know about. Because of the length of time that I have been living in you, you are becoming me. Or at least like me.'
"What? What do you mean?" Duo gasped out loud as he dragged himself to his bed and collapsed on it.
'What I mean is that I've stayed in this body for to long. We are starting to merge. I didn't realize it at first, but when I was knocked out from that punch, it suddenly occurred to me that I wasn't supposed to be able to be hurt. But the weakness of your body is affecting my body.' Shin explained quietly.
'So I really am going to become the God of Death.' Duo thought with a slightly ironic chuckle. 'So what is going to happen to me?'
'That depends on if I can get out of you in time. If I do, you will be slightly stronger than a normal person and you won't age as fast everyone else and you'll be able to materialize my scythe on your own.
'But if I can't, then we will merge fully and though we will have two mind, I would never be able to get out. Not to mention, I would get all of your memories and you would know all mine.' Shin finished, and Duo just stare up at the ceiling in shock.
"Well, that sucks. I don't want any one to know what I've been through." he said out loud again.
'Yes that does suck. Now I need to concentrate for a while so why don't you go to sleep.' Shin said and Duo sank into a deep sleep with in a few seconds, thanks to some mental prompting from Shin, whose half brother was sleep.
'If only you knew how hard it is to separate from a body that you are bonding to.' Shin thought as he took control of Duo's body and disappeared in the green smoke again.
Just as he disappeared, police officers came charging into the house, looking for whoever had broken in.
Duo's Pain
Chapter 2
"Like he has been telling everyone for a long time now, he is the God of Death, and he and I are one. Just call me Shinigami." he said with a cruel smile.
Sakura stared at the braided boy in front of her and shivered. Duo's eyes were no longer amethyst but deep, bottomless black orbs. She watched, stunned, as a glowing green scythe appeared in his hand, and with a deceptively simple move of his body, beheaded the guards that were still standing next to him.
Gasping, she stumbled a step back as he turned his hollow eyes towards her again.
"Duo Maxwell is under my protection. Go back to your bosses at New Oz and tell them to leave him alone." Shinigami said coolly and she nodded quickly before running out of the salvage yard. If she had waited another few seconds or turned around and looked at the youth, she would have seen his eyes return to their nature color and then see him collapse. Just before he hit the ground, however he disappeared in a flash of green smoke.
But she did not look back, and instead kept running until she got to the airport where a shuttle was waiting to take her back to HQ.
Quatre sighed as he put down a file that he had been reading. No matter what he did, he just couldn't keep up with Duo. It seemed that he knew exactly where they all were and what they were all doing at every moment and managed to stay away from them. But why would he do that? Sure they had asked him to leave but Heero loved him and all four of them had visited him everyday except for the one day that he had woken up.
"Quatre, turn on the news. There is something that you have got to see." Trowa said as he hurried in to his office and flipped on the TV that was in the corner.
"...bodies were found at Duo Maxwell's salvage yard on L2 decapitated. Mr. Maxwell protests the allegations by saying that he was asleep when the murders took place."
Quatre stared at the TV in shock as it showed the ex-Deathscyth pilot being lead away in handcuffs.
"I don't believe it. Duo killed some one and then came up with the lamest excuse?" Quatre said in shock.
"But Duo doesn't lie." Trowa said softly.
"I know but this is still unbelievable."
Suddenly the phone rang, startling the to guys.
"Yes?" Quatre said as he picked up the phone and turned to the vid screen.
"Have you seen the news?" Wufie demanded from the screen.
"We're watching it now." Quatre said and Trowa came around the desk so that Wufie could see him too.
"I'm going to head over to L2 to see him and ask him my self about what happened. This is not like him." Wufie said angrily and Quatre nodded.
"We'll meet you there." Quatre said and Wufie nodded.
Suddenly Trowa spoke up for the fist time since Wufie and Quatre had started talking. "Has Heero seen this yet?" he asked softly and Wufie just nodded.
Heero had indeed seen the broadcast. He was currently in his office at the Preventers HQ trashing the place. All ready the TV and entertainment system had been demolished and there were a couple holes in the walls at various place around the room where he had put his fist through the wall.
After about ten more minutes, he finally collapsed on the window seat and watched the rain falling.
'How could he do this?' he thought to himself as he leaned his head against the windowpane. Behind him, the door opened quietly.
"Yuy, we're going to go see Duo." Wufie said and Heero slowly turned around.
"How could he lie like that?" he asked as Wufie approached.
"We don't know, which is why were going up there to see if we can get some answers." Wufie said and Heero stood up.
"When do we leave?"
Duo sat on the cot in his jail cell and stared at the wall. The cell was an enclosed small space that had only a door, the cot, and a small light high above him on the ceiling.
'How the hell did this happen?' he thought for the hundredth time. All he could remember was the lady, Sakura hitting him in the back of his head with a pipe from the salvage yard and then waking up in his own bed.
'Shinigami, did you kill those guys?' he asked the other entity that resided in his body.
'Yes.' Shin said calmly in his mind.
'Why?'
'New Oz was trying to kidnap you. I had to convince her to leave you alone.'
'Couldn't you just reveal your true self like you did with those guys a couple years ago? We really do look a lot a like, you know.' Duo said silently to the God of Death who chuckled.
'Yes, we do but if they had seen the bat wings sprouting out of your back, they might have went to their bosses and told them and then they would have hunted you down until the day you died. Those other guys were just thugs but these guys have higher connections.' Shin explained and Duo nodded in understanding.
Realizing that the people monitoring the cell would find it strange that he was staring at the wall and nodding to himself, Duo quickly got off the bed and started exercising, as if he had nodded in his determination to do sit-ups.
Suddenly, the door opened and two guards came in to the room and grabbed him by each arm and dragged him out the door. The only reason he was let out of the cell with only two guards was that her was still wearing the cuffs that joined his wrists together and made it hard for him to do anything with his arms and hands.
They pulled him down the hall to a room where they sat him down in a chair, then left him alone. Looking around, Duo saw five different cameras trained on him and knew that they had microphones hidden all over so that they could hear anything that was said, even a whisper.
Suddenly the door opened again and he watched, shocked, as Quatre, Trowa, Wufie, and Heero entered and the door was slid shut behind them. Schooling his face into a cool mask of disinterest that he didn't feel, he stared at them as they sat down around him on various chairs.
They stared at each other for a few minutes before Duo finally spoke. "What do you want?" he asked in a neutral voice.
There was silence for a moment before Quatre asked softly, "Why did you kill them?"
"I may run and hide, but I never tell a lie." Duo snapped as he stood up and started to pace. "You know me better than that, Quatre. If I said I was sleeping, than I was sleeping. After all we went through together back then, you have the nerve to come here and ask why I killed two guys that I never touched?!" he shouted the last part as he spun around to face the group.
"Then why don't you tell us what happened." Trowa suggested softly and Wufie nodded solemnly.
"Fine. I'm working on my bike and this woman calling herself Sakura Tenda came up and said that she was sent by Lady Une to ask me to become a Preventer again. I started to walk away after refusing and she hit me over the head with a pipe. The next thing I know, I'm waking up in my bed with a major head-ache and the police banging on my door." Duo snapped as he twisted his head sharply to get his braid back over his shoulder to hang between his shoulder blades. Turning, he stomped over to the huge window that looked out at the stars.
Things were silent behind him for a moment, then Wufie asked in a hard voice, "Do you have any idea how you got into your bed or how those men died?"
"Oh, don't you know? Shinigami killed them with his scythe and then transported me there." Duo said as brightly as he could, knowing that that they would never believe him. Turning around, he glared at them for a moment before he stomped back over to his chair and slumped in to it.
After hearing Duo's last statement, Heero closed his eyes and sighed quietly. Looking up after a moment, he asked quietly, "Why did you leave when you got out of the hospital?"
Duo stared at him for a moment before saying, "I was simply follow what you guys told me to do. You did tell me to go away and leave you guys alone."
"But Duo, you were in a coma for two months. Why didn't you just stay in the hospital for a while and recover?" Quatre asked as he leaned on his lover.
"Why did you guys bother to even save me? You made it plenty clear that I wasn't to disrupt your lives any more." Duo said bitterly and the others gasped, not having realized that he had heard what they had said after he had run upstairs.
"I appreciate your little protest about kicking me out as being a little drastic, Quatre, but all you had to do was tell me that you had work to do." Duo said and Wufie immediately sat up straight with an angry look on his face.
"Maxwell we were always..." he started but Duo cut him off.
"You were always telling me to shut up, Wufie, but never once did you ever give me a reason to. The four of you, after the war, became so silent and withdrawn that I was trying to get you guys to open up a little and in the process I fell in love, but then that didn't ever really matter did it? I was just a nuisance to you four." he snapped but they just sat there staring at him in silence.
Finally Quatre said softly, "We're sorry Duo, but all of us were in a bad mood that day and we have regretted it ever since." He would have continued but Duo spun away and walked over to the door and started banging on it with his shackles Soon the two guards that had brought him in, opened the door and came in.
"We're finished so you might as well take me back to my cell." he said and just before he left, he said, "I wish that none of this had ever happened. But you don't have to lie about what you think and feel. Don't come after me again."
Heero just stared at the closed door after he had left with the guards. Finally it opened again and an officious man came in.
"Thank you for trying to help but maybe it would have been better if you had stayed on the topic of the murders." he said snootily and Heero punched him before storming out with the others following behind him.
"You know, he was right. We never did give him a reason to shut up and was always trying to cheer us up after we all moved in together. But I can't believe that he thought we were lying when we said we were sorry for what we had done." Quatre said quietly as they got into the car and drove back to the hotel they were staying at. No one said anything for the rest of the night, each occupied by his own thoughts.
'You know, I think they really meant it when they said that they had been regretting it ever since.' Shin said thoughtfully as Duo was left alone in the cell.
'Who asked you?' Duo said silently as he lay down on the bed and tried to get comfortable.
'Just voicing my thoughts.'
'Well voice them some where else.' Duo snapped and quickly fell asleep.
One of the technicians was watching the recording of the meeting between the five guys in the viewing room when he suddenly started to feel sorry for the braided youth. "Sounds like this Duo kid went through a lot with these guys and they just turned their backs on him, or at least thinks they did." he said thoughtfully to his friend who was watching the tape also.
"Yeah but I wonder who it was that he fell in love with." the friend said and the technion nodded. Looking at the monitor that showed the prisoner's cell, he suddenly saw the cell door blow open and armed men ran in and grabbed the prisoner. They put a cloth over his face and his struggles became weaker until they finally stopped, but the technician didn't see this because he was already sounding the alarm. His friend did, however and it made him wonder what these big men wanted with a suspected murderer and made them break into a prison and kidnap him.
Duo woke up to the sound of the door to his cell being blown open. Before he could even sit up, two big men grabbed him and clamped a cloth with chloroform on it over his nose and mouth. Holding his breath so that he wouldn't breath it in, he faked passing out, almost doing so in the process for air loss, until they removed the cloth and tossed him over one of their shoulders.
He was carried out of his cell and soon found himself in the back of a van that sped off before the guards even got near them. Duo cracked his eyes a little to see who was in the van with him and saw the two men who had grabbed him and, surprisingly, Sakura Tenda who was watching him nervously.
"So tell me, where is this Shinigami that protects him?" the man driving the van sneered as he pulled into the shuttle port.
"I know that it sounds like I'm making it up but it was Shinigami that killed Tenchi and Toma. And you know that they were decapitated like a laser did it." Sakura snapped as she brushed a strand of lavender hair behind her ear.
'Do you have tell everyone you meet that you are Shinigami?' Duo silently snapped and Shin chuckled and took over Duo's body before he could stop him.
Shin chuckled out loud as he sat up and casually snapped the handcuffs like they were made out of tissue paper. The four people in the van stared at him in shock for a second as Shin leaned against the side of the van.
"I thought you had learned your lesson the last time." he said in amusement to Sakura who edged closer to the front of the van, trying to get away from the grinning God of Death.
"This is not by my choice." she whispered and flinched as he threw back his had and laughed.
Wiping the tears of laughter from his eyes, Shin smirked at her and said, "Well, I guess that I can't really expect to much of New Oz. Let me guess, they sent you out to try and gather all the Gundam pilots to keep them out of your way when you try to take over the colonies and earth, right?" She nodded faintly and he burst into laughter again.
So preoccupied by laughing, he didn't see the fist arching towards his face until it connected with his cheek, knocking him out and allowing Duo to gain control again. The others watched in surprised as the black orbs changed to the color of amethysts.
"Shin?" he said and thought to the entity but received no reply. Sighing he said, a little pissed, "I hate it when you take over like that, you ass."
"Wh.. what?" Sakura stuttered as she leaned forward a little to look into his eyes.
"Never mind. So you guys are from New Oz?" he asked and when they nodded, he smirked and pushed open the back of the van, which had come to a stop by a shuttle that was ready to launch, and tumbled out on to the ground.
The two men from the back of the van lunged out after him and a couple that were waiting nearby closed in around him. Duo found himself surrounded by five men, all armed, and knew that if something drastic didn't happen, he was in deep shit.
"I think you guys had better just walk away. I don't want to have to hurt you but I will." he said dangerously, but they just smirked at him.
Suddenly, one of them lunged and the fight between the God of Death and New Oz's men began. Duo managed to knock out two men but then the other three ganged up on him. Two grabbed his arms and held him while the third pounded on him. The man's gun had been lost earlier and the other two were having a hard time just holding him still.
'What happened?' Shin said in Duo's mind startling him.
'You were knocked out when one of them punched us in the face.' Duo said and began gasping for breath as the man in front of him punched him in the stomach, knocking the air out of him.
'Get us out of here, Shin!' he shouted silently as he dropped to his knees and black dots danced in front of his eyes.
'You got it.' In a flash of green smoke Duo disappeared, just missing a kick aimed for his head. The guards and Sakura stared at the spot where he had disappeared for a moment before Sakura said, "Ha! I told you so!"
Duo appeared in the middle of the floor of his bedroom at his apartment. In side his head, Shin said quietly, 'Duo there are some consequences I think you should know about. Because of the length of time that I have been living in you, you are becoming me. Or at least like me.'
"What? What do you mean?" Duo gasped out loud as he dragged himself to his bed and collapsed on it.
'What I mean is that I've stayed in this body for to long. We are starting to merge. I didn't realize it at first, but when I was knocked out from that punch, it suddenly occurred to me that I wasn't supposed to be able to be hurt. But the weakness of your body is affecting my body.' Shin explained quietly.
'So I really am going to become the God of Death.' Duo thought with a slightly ironic chuckle. 'So what is going to happen to me?'
'That depends on if I can get out of you in time. If I do, you will be slightly stronger than a normal person and you won't age as fast everyone else and you'll be able to materialize my scythe on your own.
'But if I can't, then we will merge fully and though we will have two mind, I would never be able to get out. Not to mention, I would get all of your memories and you would know all mine.' Shin finished, and Duo just stare up at the ceiling in shock.
"Well, that sucks. I don't want any one to know what I've been through." he said out loud again.
'Yes that does suck. Now I need to concentrate for a while so why don't you go to sleep.' Shin said and Duo sank into a deep sleep with in a few seconds, thanks to some mental prompting from Shin, whose half brother was sleep.
'If only you knew how hard it is to separate from a body that you are bonding to.' Shin thought as he took control of Duo's body and disappeared in the green smoke again.
Just as he disappeared, police officers came charging into the house, looking for whoever had broken in.